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Robin Raphel is now the State Department's coordinator for Iraq reconstruction, an $18.4 billion effort to rebuild and pacify the country that has neither moved quickly nor produced the results many had hoped. The new State Department team is changing gears with a plan to spend up to $3.5 billion on small-scale projects that show visible results quickly. The US is planning on putting more money into short-term employment generation: more people to clean the irrigation, to pick up the garbage, to paint the schools, to do the simple things a community needs to put its people back to work.
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Changing Course
Robin Raphel insists she's optimistic about Iraq's future. She's likely to need every ounce of that spirit. Raphel, ambassador to Tunisia in the late 1990s, is now the State Department's coordinator for Iraq reconstruction, an $18.4 billion effort to rebuild and pacify the country that has neither moved qu...
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